QuickWire: For-Profit University Will Accept MOOC Credits

01/27/2014

The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 26, 2014. Bridgepoint Education’s Ashford University, which offers courses both online and on a campus in Clinton, Iowa, said on Friday that it would allow students to earn credits toward degrees by taking “selected” massive open online courses offered through two of the three big online-course providers, Coursera and Udacity.